Beloved New York Bar Wins Reprieve From Wrecking Ball

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Owners of the 77-year-old Subway Inn, a New
York bar where celebrities like Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio
once mingled, won a court order on Tuesday temporarily blocking
their imminent eviction from the site, the business said.

The reprieve for the family-owned bar on Manhattan's Upper East
Side, a day before it was set to be closed, comes as a
rising number of long-established New York businesses have been
forced to make way for high-end residences or chain stores able
to afford the city's soaring property costs.

"We know that this is just the first step in a very long and hard
David vs Goliath Fight," Subway Inn co-owner Steven Salinas said
in a statement. "However, we are confident that in the end
justice prevails and the Subway Inn will be spared from the
wrecking ball."

Subway Inn had been slated to close by Wednesday. Developers plan
to tear down the low-rise building that houses it and build
luxury condominiums, the bar's owners have said.

The restraining order issued by the New York State Supreme Court
in Manhattan gives the business seven more days to prepare its
case to have its eviction thrown out, Subway Inn attorney Claude
Castro said.

The bar's landlord, World-Wide Holdings Corp, declined to comment
on the court order.

In a statement issued last week, World-Wide said Subway Inn had
been aware of the redevelopment plan for eight years.